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“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption”...so said Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.

She told of people ‘out of their heads’ asleep on benches in the gardens - ‘something my children shouldn’t have to see’.

(Photo: Joel Goodman)The M.E.N. has been flooded with comments after we revealed the shocking scale of abuse of the highly addictive drug Spice in the city centre - and called on authorities to act now to stop the epidemic spiralling further out of control.

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In an unprecedented response, our readers spoke of their sadness at pictures of users swaying uncontrollably among shoppers, slumped unconscious in phone boxes and passed out on the streets. Many said government funding cuts have decimated charities and care for the most vulnerable. Others questioned what they, and we as a society, could do to help.

(Photo: Joel Goodman)There have been calls to set up a specific treatment site at Piccadilly Gardens and open up empty buildings for the homeless with associated health treatment programmes.

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The situation was also likened by our readers to the widespread use of the drug phencyclidine, also known as PCP, in the United States in the 1980s, in Washington DC in particular.
Also known as ‘angel dust’ and developed as an anaesthetic, the hallucinogenic drug is notorious for causing violent and bizarre behaviour. Cheap and readily available, its use caused widespread public panic.

Anthony Johnson, writing in response to our article on Facebook said the homeless of Manchester city centre have been ‘completely abandoned’ and described the Spice epidemic as a ‘symptom of neglect’.
And Steph Jones urged the authorities to ‘look to the real problem, which is homelessness in the city’. “Standing and judging the ‘zombies’ from our warm and cosy homes will do nothing to provide support,” she wrote.
Rachael Stoker painted a bleak picture. She said on Facebook: “I was there with my children aged 8 on Friday. As we walked across Piccadilly Gardens back to the station we saw three people fitting, foaming at the mouth, stiff eyes rolling. It was absolutely awful, I’ve never seen it so bad. We won’t be returning anytime soon.”

(Photo: Joel Goodman)Daniel Burgess added: “I’ve done a bit fair of reading on Manchester from the Industrial Revolution era and homelessness was a huge problem then and I don’t think it’s ever changed.
"There are just fewer services and less people and money to help with it now compared to the last couple of decades so it’s just more apparent, but it’s always been a huge part of our city.”
Dan Edwards said life on the streets ‘must be horrific beyond imagination’ and called on the public to understand and empathise with the reasons people turn to the drug to escape reality.
Some posters urged the public to volunteer with charities to help ease the situation.